Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-09-17
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Al. Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania railroad
who seems to have been selected by rumo!
to succeed Mr.. Garrett in the Baltimore ano
Ohio presidency, is now In London. Hi
Philadelphia friends profess to have positive
advices that he has been offered control OF
the Baltimore aud Ohio. and believe he vii
accept the position.
The Chicago wheelman, Temple, won the
one-mile bicycle race at Swansea, wales, on
Saturday. Morgan, OF New YORK; was tne
victor in the fifty-mile contest.
Aldermen in Spain seem to be as generous
with the peoples money as their American
brethren are. The town council OF San
Sebastian has voted to pay S1OO,OOO Tor
palace and give it to the queen regent.
The old quarrel of the Germans and
Czechs in Bohemia has received fresh
impetus. The German delegates refuse to
attend the coming session of the diet, or to
acknowledge the validity of its acts, unless
the government will guarantee protection OF
German rights.
1t is reported that provisions were being
shipped from Chicago to Liverpool, via Bos-
ton, at % cents a hundred pounds. The
established tariff on provisions to New York
and Boston is 30 cents, and it is admitted
that shipments have been made TO Liverpool
at that rate. If the lower rate is actually
made, it costs less to send a hundred weight
of meat to Liverpool than to Boston; and
even if the charge is the same to both places
go cents, the stuff seems to be carried from
Boston across the Atlantic for nothing. 1t
is supposed that the interstate commission
ers will bring their massive intellects to bear
on this peculiar arrangement.
j. F. Randolph, formerly superintendent
of the Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland
railroad, died, at the age of 50, at Norwalk
Ohio.
DR.. A. Wetmore, of Waterloo Illinois, was
found unconscious, with a long cash in his
head ,on the railroad track, thirty miles east
of Parkersburg, West Virginia. He died of
bis injuries on Sunday night. The doctor
was on his wayto the medical congress at
Washington.
In New York Labor day" was legal holi-
day, the exchanges, banks, courts, public
offices, and many business houses being
closed. Nearly all the trades organizations in
the city took part in the parade, numbered
about 25, 900 men. The day was also observed
in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Indian
apolis, Detroit, Milwaukee, and most other
places where many laborers are employed.
A bill to provide for pensioning letter car
riers after ten years of service is in prepara-
ton by an officer of the Chicago postofice.
1t is to be presented to congress in Decem-
Der. Ten or eleven thousand bills for vari-
GUS purposes are introduced in congress
every year, and ten-elevenths of them i'm
mediately afterward are introduced to a
permanent resting-p place in some commit
tees pigeon-holes.
The railway mail service mutual benefit
&c ho11 nc fhirfoonfh onrno1
session at Detroit, with about 12O members
in attendance.
A steamship ticket agent named kissing
has disappeared from Milwaukee. 1t is
charged that he has swindled a number of
people who intrusted him with money to be
sent their friends in Europe.
Washington dispatches say that Speaker
Carlisle and Secretary Fairchild have been
in consultation with the president at the lat
ter's country residence. The consultation
was held, it is said, for the purpose of de-
vising plans for the reduction of the treasury
surplus, or for a reduction of taxes that pro-
duce the surplus.
In tho railroad yards at Freeport, Illinois,
James Clay, colored, was killed by freight
train, and James McGovern, an old settler,
was crushed fatally between two cars.
1t seems to be unsafe to make uncompli-
mentary remarks about anarchists in public
rooms in Chicago. A man named Funk was
knocked down and kicked for this offense
the other night, the punishment being in
ficted by brother of Spies and two of his
friends.
The trustee of E. L. Harper & Co., of Gin |
cinnati, reports an appraisement of the assets |
of the firm. according to which they are |
worth $103,202. The liabilities are 81 1872
744, besides liabilities as indorsers to the
of $1,692,O73. The dividends which
may be reasonably expected by the Gre ditors
cannot be very large, taking this showing as
a basis of computation.
The French government and press are
pleased with the success of the experimental
of an army corps. The opinion |
prevails, it is said, that if France had been
equally ready in 1870 there would have been
no Sedan.
One of Chicago's juvenile thugs-Charles
Moran, aged fourteen,-has been sent to the |
bridewell for assaulting policeman. While |
he is working out his $50 fine there, the grand |
jury will be asked to indict him for robbery |
on the highway. His family are said to be |
very respectable.
The London Times wants to know if sit is |
too much to expect that the American senate
should in some way signify beforehand it's |
willingness to be bound by the decisions of |
The fisheries commission" It is rather too |
much. To be perfectly frank with the Thun-
ierer, it should be explained that the Amer
can senate can't ratify treaties before they
ire made.
At Rock Island, Illinois, eight years ago,
/ policeman named Rosenfield was beaten
10 death by three or four drunken rufians.
Two of the murderers, Barney Heany and
John Cavanaugh, were sentence, to Joliet
or life, and Pat Heany to term (Which has
ust expired. The governor ha pardoned
Javanaugh, who left the prisosn with Pat
deany. Barney is still at Joliet.
The examiner who has been looking over
he affairs of the bank at Biddeford, Main
which young scNeilly robbed, thinks the
hief left about $500, 900 more than enough
% pay the concerns debts.
The village of Catlin, Vermilion county,
illinois, has chosen Martin Tedec, colored
nan, an ex-slave and ex-soldier of the late
var, police magistrate. The new justice has
been running barber-shop.
The marriage of Sir Henry Tichborne-in